After a 25% surge last year, the Dow Jones industrial average is still on a tear, shooting up nearly 6% in January alone. And once-wary Main Street investors who sat out most of the bull market are now buying stocks in pursuit of profits. These are some of the tell-tale signs of a stock market […]
U.S. stocks overcame a brief stumble to close slightly higher Wednesday, snapping a two-day losing streak. The dip came after the Federal Reserve released its latest statement on interest rate policy and the economy, in which the central bank signaled that it expects inflation to pick up this year. The Fed, as expected, held off […]
Stocks around the world have staged one of the best-ever starts to a year, a synchronized rally that has only gained momentum following 2017’s sharp gains. In the U.S., the S&P 500’s 7.5% rise in January is its biggest since 1987. In Asia, the Shanghai Composite has already surged 7.6%, surpassing last year’s gain. Hong […]
An AI-powered ETF really likes these stocks. But why? Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to enable cars to drive themselves, detect cancer, improving search engines, and a lot more. Why not use it for picking stocks? That’s exactly what many organizations and individuals are doing. But most of them, understandably, keep those potential winning […]
Asian shares gained on Monday in morning session after Wall Street touched record highs in the last session amid upbeat corporate earnings and strong global economic growth. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.19% in early trade and aiming for a 12th straight session of gains. It is up nearly 8% for […]
Asian stocks pared gains by midday as the U.S. dollar lost some of its early momentum. China and Hong Kong shares turned lower, with declines in the mainland led by small-cap companies listed in the country’s south, following comments from a regulator about clamping down on high-priced stocks. The Shenzhen Composite Index SHCOMP, -0.97% was […]
U.S. stocks are seeing their biggest decline in months, pulled down by hefty losses in health care and technology companies. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 31 points, or 1.1 percent, to close at 2,822. The Dow Jones industrial sank 363 points, following a 145 point slump on Monday, to end at 26,077. The […]
Solid Biosciences shares slide 10% as paper says animals suffered toxic crisis in gene therapy trial Shares of gene therapy companies fell sharply Tuesday, after a report by a prominent scientist revealed the safety concerns that led him to resign recently from a scientific advisory board. Gene therapy researcher James Wilson, a giant in the […]
U.S. stocks fell for a second straight day on Tuesday, with the Dow registering its biggest two-day drop since September 2016, pressured by healthcare stocks and rising bond yields. The Dow also had its biggest daily percentage decline since May 2017 and the day’s 1.37-percent fall was the second-biggest single-day drop since the election of […]
US markets have suffered a second day of steep losses, as investors dumped health care companies and Apple. The blue chip Dow Jones Industrial Average sank nearly 1.4%, marking its biggest one-day decline in months. The fall followed the news that Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway would create a new healthcare company with the aim of […]
Industrial automation, an aging society, self-driving cars, infrastructure and water Investors often to pay too much attention to the short term, and overlook lasting long-term trends that ultimately matter more to their portfolio. Sure, the recent government-shutdown fight was difficult to ignore. And yes, it’s hard to look away from the volatility in bitcoin. However, […]
If you’re looking for a sure thing in tech stocks these days, it seems you could do worse than shares of a couple of the biggest chip equipment makers, the companies that provide the tools to Intel and others to fabricate semiconductors. That’s the conventional wisdom, at least. But you may want to pause to […]
